DAMP and mould are still making social housing tenants’ lives a misery — three years after an infestation killed a two-year-old child in Rochdale in Greater Manchester.

Awaab Ishak died in December 2020 after living in a damp home owned by Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH), the coroner ruling that his respiratory disease was caused by black mould.

But the government has been accused of failing to introduce promised new laws forcing landlords to tackle damp and mould in their properties following the child’s death.